Roniti Teiwaki is an

I-Kiribati The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan. Ethno ...

politician. After the 1974 general election, he became member of the Cabinet of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of Naboua Ratieta as Minister of Education, Training and Culture, then confirmed from March 1978 as Minister for Natural Resource Development in

Ieremia Tabai Ieremia Tienang Tabai (born 16 December 1949) is an I-Kiribati politician who served as the first president of Kiribati from 1979 to 1991. He previously served in the equivalent role, chief minister, under the colonial government from 1978 ...

’s cabinet of the

Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands (;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this name applied o ...

, after being candidate to 1978 Gilbertese Chief Minister election. He temporarily retired from politics in 1982 for working at the University of South Pacific. He was the opposition candidate to

Teatao Teannaki Teatao Teannaki (15 June 1935 – 11 October 2016) was an I-Kiribati political figure who served as the second president of Kiribati from 1991 until 1994. He was first elected to represent Abaiang in the House of Assembly of the Gilbert Islands. ...

, his brother-in-law, for 1991 Kiribati presidential election. He was also an unsuccessful candidate at the 1994 Kiribati presidential election.

References

*Teiwaki, R. (1977). ''The constitutional convention and Gilbertese culture''. Pacific Perspectives, 6(2), 6-8. *Teiwaki, R. (1988). ''Kiribati: Nation of water''. In R. Crocombe & L. Mason (Eds.), ''Micronesian politics'' (pp. 1–37). Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Living people Members of the House of Assembly (Kiribati) Government ministers of Kiribati People from the Gilbert Islands 20th-century I-Kiribati politicians 21st-century I-Kiribati politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Kiribati-politician-stub